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Education Futures offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the future of education and learning in the age of AI.
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We can’t ask kids to resist AI. The friction has to be designed in. (opens the original)
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If you’ve been reading along these past few weeks, you know I keep circling the same worry. That we’re living in a golden age of friction removal: the e-bike instead of the bike, the AI instead of the first draft and that the friction we’re stripping out is the thing that the developing brain needs. You can’t offload what you haven’
You can't offload what you haven't built yet (opens the original)
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AI’s defining promise is becoming cognition’s greatest risk.The designers of general-purpose conversational AI build for seamlessness, ease, and comfort. What if these are the opposite of what a developing brain needs in order to learn to think?Not all offloading is equal. Decades of research in cognitive neuroscience show that the cost of outsourcing thought depends on when in life you do it. It is not the same thing at five, at fifteen, or at fifty.Rebecca Winthrop, who directs the Center for
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